On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Kevin Martin kevintm@ameritech.net wrote:
I'm getting some strange things happening on F10 lately. In a terminal session if I "ps -ef" or "w" or "ls" or anything of that nature the command runs (sometimes) but never returns the prompt. Also, my loadavg seems to go sky high but "top" doesn't necessarily show anything using much CPU (actually, top will often show that my cpu utilization is 90+% idle while my loadavg is upwards of 10). I can usually shutdown my "gui"fied apps (like Thunderbird, Firefox, VirtualBox) but if I try and reboot the reboot hangs while trying to shutdown "automount" and I have to cycle the power on the box. I'm running the latest updates including kernel 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686. Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks.
Kevin
Try connecting remotely: are you able to login cleanly? can you issue commands such as 'pf -ef' in the remote terminal? I had a similar problem a bit ago and it was related to a large number of ssh processes "hanging around". I kill them all and it was all fine. Check the logs, your problem could be due to several other reasons. As mentioned earlier: don't forget the simple stuff. Check that the /, /tmp or /var filesystems are ok and not full. Some systems slow down when they overheat: check the fans. If you don't have enough physical memory, make sure to have enough swap space.
~af